Elizabeth Bibesco Quotes

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

Plastic surgery can't make you younger or more beautiful, because beauty is in your eyes, isn't it? It's in your soul; you can't strap it on.

Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?

My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.

If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.

I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.

I feel it is important not to get overly obsessed and overly carried away with just the physical aspect. There is more to beauty than just the physical appearance. You are also a complete person, and a woman should have an identity beyond just the way she looks.

I have no issues with my identity.

I'm not a great beauty. That's not me.

I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.

I'm happy that I have a look, but I don't over-analyse whether or not it's beautiful or ugly.

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

I was so beautiful but I didn't realise it for years. I saw pictures of myself and even I was stunned.

Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.

I told my mom, 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can get past this thought of looking like the girl on the cover'. She said, "Miley, you are the girl on the cover,' and I was, like, 'I know, but I don't feel like that girl every day.' You can't always feel perfect.

You can feel like, 'I look really bad', but to other people you can be really gorgeous.

I'm not as beautiful as a model.

I'm not an eye-candy kind of girl.

I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.

I never saw myself as beautiful. I can look back and see it now, but then? Never.

There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

We all have to find beauty within us, as opposed to just our exterior.

I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.